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Layla Bouzoubaa
Public Health - data science, visualization, engineering
Education
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
M.S. Public Health cn. Biostatistics
Miami, FL
2015–2016
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering
Atlanta, GA
2009–2014
Professional Experience
Lead Research Analyst
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
2019–present
- HEALing Communities Study Analyst - address opioid misuse use disorder (OUD)
- Build Shiny App to visualize community characters and map of naloxone facilities
- Design and disseminate statistical reports and visualizations by community with R and R Markdown
- Process population data for NY communities using the US Census Bureau via API
- Create maps from shapefiles (tigris) and overlay various population health risk factors
- CTN0094 Analyst- Predict response to OUD treatments
- Spell Checker Shiny App to harmonize and standardize drug names
- SCAN360.com Project Manager
- University of Miami COVID-19 Contact Tracking and Tracing Committee Principal Analyst
- Serological testing dashboard for Miami-Dade County
- UM COVID-19 dashboard
- Observing COVID-19 policy adoption in collaboration with the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, led by Dr. Felicia Knaul, and Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico
Biostatistician Programmer
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine - Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Miami, FL
2017–2019
- Acquire & process population data from various sources
- Calculate various measures of cancer burden including age-adjusted incidence, mortality, survival rates
- Prototype new data sources via Shiny App and R package development
Epidemiology Researcher
Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie
Fes, Morocco
2014–2015
- Statistical consulting
- Literature reviews for a multitude of research initiatives
Content Developer
Great Parents Academy
Atlanta, GA
2013–2014
- Develop digital lessons that were integrated into the educational supplemental software - XML
Certifications
Google Analytics
Google Academy
N/A
2020
Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud
N/A
2019
Applied Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
N/A
2017
Software
tidyREDCap
tidyREDCap is an R package with functions for processing REDCap data
https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/tidyREDCap/index.html
N/A
2020
Selected Teaching Experience
Data Science & Machine Learning for Health Research
University of Miami Department of Public Health Sciences
Miami, FL
2019–
- Developed curriculum to a Biostatistics course to teach computational data science methods to graduate students in a modular format that follows the basic components of a data pipeline. Primary topics taught: version control with git and GitHub, building Shiny applications - theory and applied, building interactive visualizations, working with geospatial data.
Invited Lectures & Presentations
DOPE: A Package for the R Language to Process/Classify Drug Names
Virtual Poster/Q&A - CPDD Conference
Online
June 2021
Raymond Balise, Gabriel Odom, L Bouzoubaa, Sean Luo, Daniel Feaster
Introduction to Public Health Data Science with the R Programming Language
Workshop given to the attendees of the NSF Re-enter STEM Through Emerging Technology (RESET)
Online
March 2021
L Bouzoubaa
Introduction to R Markdown
Workshop to R-Ladies community on how to create a prepare R Markdown files within RStudio for presentations and publication ready text, output & visualizations
Miami, FL
March 2020
L Bouzoubaa
Tearing Down Barriers to Publication with R Markdown
Seminar presented to Florida International University graduated students on how to use R for publications, dissertations, blogs using packages such as rmarkdown, knitr, bookdown, pagedown, xariangan
Miami, FL
Feb 2020
L Bouzoubaa, R Balise
Guest Lecturer and Computing Lab Instructor
University of Miami Department of Public Health Sciences - Medical Biostatistics Topics: methods in experimental and non-experimental epidemiological studies
Miami, FL
Aug 2016–Dec 2016
L Bouzoubaa, A Gauri
Selected Publications
Gender disparities in lung cancer survival from an enriched Florida population-based cancer registry
Annals of Medicine and Surgery. doi:10.1016/j.amsu.2020.11.081
N/A
2020
A Elkbuli, MM Byrne, W Zhao, M Sutherland, M McKenney, Y Godinez, DJ Dave, L Bouzoubaa, T Koru-Sengul
SCAN360: A Resource for a 360-Degree View of Cancer Prevention, Risk, and Survival
Preventing Chronic Disease (2020). doi:10.5888/pcd17.200263
N/A
2020
Z Bailey, R Balise, L Bouzoubaa, E Kobetz
Emergent high fatality lung disease in systemic juvenile arthritis
Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2019). doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-216040
N/A
2019
Saper, V, G Chen, G Deutsch, R Guillerman, J Birgmeier, K Jagadeesh, S Canna, G Schulert, R Deterding, J Xu, AN Leung, L Bouzoubaa, …,P Khatri, ED Mellins
Risk of Cancer Death Among White, Black, and Hispanic Populations in South Florida
Prev Chronic Dis (2019). doi:10.5888/pcd16.180529
N/A
2019
P Pinheiro, K Callahan, T Koru-Sengul, J Ransdell, L Bouzoubaa, CP Brown, E Kobetz
The Impact of Immediate Salvage Surgery on Corporeal Length Preservation in Patients Presenting with Penile Implant Infections
J. Urol. (2018). doi:10.1016/j.juro.2018.01.082
N/A
2018
D Lopategui, R Balise, L Bouzoubaa, S Wilson, and B Kava
Cancer patterns and trends in Costa Rica: A population-based tumor registry study
J. Clinical Oncology (2018). doi:10.1200/jco.2018.36.15_suppl.e13605
N/A
2018
O Picado, JB Bispo, L Bouzoubaa, RR Balise, G Lopes, E Kobetz
Cervical cancer sociodemographic and diagnostic disparities in Florida: a population-based study (1981–2013) by stage at presentation
Ethnicity & Health (2018). doi:10.1080/13557858.2018.1471669
N/A
2018
A Gauri, SE Messiah, L Bouzoubaa, KJ Moore, T Koru-Sengul
Professional Development
Tidy Modeling with R Bookclub
N/A
Online
March 2021
Advanced R Bookclub
N/A
Online
March 2021
Tidy Text Mining Workshop
Part of rstudio::conf. This workshop taught how to manipulate, summarize, and visualize the characteristics of text using tidy data principle and R packages from the tidy tool ecosystem.
San Francisco, CA
Jan 2020
Tidyverse Development Day
Part of rstudio::conf. It is a full day dedicated to contribute to Tidyverse packages.
San Francisco, CA
Jan 2020
Boat Lecture
N/A
Miami, FL
Jan 2020
Community Engagement
GitHub Campus
Advisor
Online
Jan 2020-
Google #IamRemarkable
Facilitator
Various
April 2019-
Google WomenTechMakers
Ambassador
Various
Feb 2019-
R-Ladies Miami
Organizer
Miami, FL
Jan 2019-
Google Developer Groups Miami
Organizer
Miami, FL
Jan 2019-
Social Justics in Data Science Bookclub
Organizer
Online
Jan 2021-